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The Festival de Jazz de San Javier offers a memorable evening that advertises the best blues of Elvin Bishop's hand, a living legend of the electric blues of Chicago.
The fans of the genre, which itself has a weakness Jazz San Javier confessed, have become an unmissable event, this time with guitarist and singer born in California universal that Vintage Guitar magazine called it "one of the best blues guitarists alive. "
Much has been raining for this musician, also highlighted in the world of rock and roll, since he began his musical career in the early 60's when he joined the blues band remembered the Paul Butterfield harmonica.
More than 22 solo albums, gems for lovers of blues, and collaborations with great musicians like Al Kooper, John Lee Hooker, BB King and Mike Bloomfield, among other landmarks in the career of guitarist and composer whose latest album 69 years "Red Dog Speaks" (2010) gives a good account of his good form.
Elvin Bishop visited San Javier in the third edition of the musical cycle Winter Soul Music where he gave a concert among the best of those who have seen in San Javier.
Now return to the Festival de Jazz de San Javier accompanied by a superb band with two guitars, trombone, drums, piano, bass, accordion, keyboards, and percussion.
The first part of the night hosted by the concert given by the Jaume Vilaseca, a degree in Hispanic Philology, dedicated with great success to the music as one of the leading jazz pianists of Spain.
For 10 years leading his own quartet to play at the San Javier Jazz with special guest, the virtuoso of the sitar (an Indian stringed instrument) Ravi Chary whom he met in India in the recording of their new album "Mumbai ", which fuses jazz sounds Mediterranean Indians.
The merger is precisely the mark of this jazz pianist who flagged creative freedom with their bright flirtations with flamenco, Brazilian music and Latin.
In their penultimate album, "Jazznesis" Jaume Vilaseca dared a risky exercise that fully victorious in carrying out the field of jazz music from the progressive rock band Genesis, without voice or letter, only with magic and contemporary that characterizes his style.
Jaume Vilaseca's piano sound in a concert of Jazz San Javier with the flute and sax, bass and electric bass, and drums of his quartet usual, and the aforementioned Indian sitar Ravi Chary, on a night that will eventually merge a blues festival with all the great Elvin Bishop.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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